ICYMI: No ‘Madden 19’ anthem; finding right King novel; great Curry tweet

Chronicle Staff and News Services

Updated
4:54 pm PDT, Friday, June 15, 2018

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In a week when AT&T closed a big deal for Time Warner and Warriors fans made a big deal in Oakland, this also happened:

•Google released its latest diversity report, which shows that its numbers of female, black and Latino workers each grew by a tenth of a percentage point. Whites now make up 53.1 percent of the workforce, Asians 36.3 percent.

•Fans of “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” got a reprieve from Netflix. Deadlinereported that Bourdain’s popular CNN series had been scheduled to leave the service this weekend, but fans petitioned for more time after he committed suicide June 8. Netflix listened, and said the show will be “on the service for months to come.”

•When EA comes out with “Madden 19” in August, one thing will almost certainly not be part of it: the national anthem, and the related controversies about players kneeling or not showing up for it. GameSpot quoted producer Ben Haumiller as saying the controversies would be a “distraction” from the real reason that people play the Redwood City company’s NFL game.

•Kellogg recalled some of its Honey Smacks cereal after salmonella infected 73 people in 31 states, including California. The recall affects 15.3-ounce packages with the UPS Code 3800039103 and 23-ounce packages with the UPS Code 3800014810. Both have best-used-by dates from June 14, 2018, through June 14, 2019.

•If you’ve ever been tempted to read a Stephen King novel, but aren’t sure where to start, there’s an app for that. The Wall Street Journalreported that publisher Scribner has come up with the Stephen King Library, an app that lets you answer a series of multiple-choice questions on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant devices. Once you answer, it will scare something up for you.

•Sometimes even a 9-year-old tweet can be a money-making opportunity, at least when it comes from someone like Steph Curry. WarriorsWorldoffered up $26 T-shirts inscribed with a Nov. 11, 2009, tweet from the (now) three-time NBA champion: “Promise to all the Warrior fans...we will figure this thing out...if it’s the last thing we do we will figure it out.”

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